Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
If one is to believe the latest figures purveyed by online traffic watcher Hitwise, Google continues to reign supreme in the search engine market and appears to be increasing its lead. However, the search engine leader has a long way to go before it can seriously challenge the dominance of Yahoo or even Microsoft in the email and online content stakes.
According to the newly released Hitwise figures, Google has 47.4% share
of the search market, which is pushing toward double the combined
shares of Yahoo (16%) and Microsoft's MSN (11.5%). However, based on
the same set of figures, outside of the search space Google does not
seem to have gained much traction at all. Yahoo Mail rules the roost
with 42.4%, followed by Microsoft's Hotmail with 22.9%. By comparison,
Google's Gmail does not rate, with just 2.54%
Google also does not do well in online news or finance areas, where
once again Yahoo wins out easily. In finance, Google, with just 0.29%
share is absolutely dwarfed by Yahoo, which has 34.9%, with Microsoft's
MSN providing at least respectable competition with 13.4% share. News
is more fragmented but Google once again has just 1.9% share compared
to Yahoo's 6.3%.
Google also trails Yahoo and US market leader Mapquest in the online maps space.
Despite all of the bad news on the mail and portals front, however,
Google continues to make more money and grow faster out of dominating
search than Yahoo does through its portals dominance. In 2005, Google
had revenues of US$6.138 billion and operating income of $2.017 billion
compared to Yahoo with US$5.258 billion and $1.108 billion. As Mel
Brooks might say: "It's good to be the search king."
David Bass
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